THE PSI SEMINAR SERIES: WEDNESDAYS

3:00pm PSI Tea

3:30pm PSI Seminar

NOTE: NEW LOCATION FOR TEA AND SEMINARS!

Tea and seminars are held in PSI's brand new west wing, located in the adjacent office complex to our west. For maps and directions click here.

Spring 2005

Date Speaker Title (link to abstract)
Jan 24
Monday!
10:30AM
Jeff Kargel
U.S. Geological Survey
Martian Ice- and Water-Formed Landscapes,
and Terrestrial chemical, mineralogical, and morphological analogs
Feb 23 Peter Smith
UA Lunar and Planetary Lab
The Phoenix Mission
March 2 Matt Balme
Planetary Science Institute
Dust Devils on Mars
March 9 Kate Su
UA Steward Observatory
The Vega Debris Disk - A Surprise from Spitzer
March 16 LPSC --- Houston, TX
March 21
Monday!
3:30PM
Jürgen Blum
Inst. for Geophys. & Extraterrestrial Phys.,
Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany
Planet Formation in the Laboratory
March 23 Cathy Quantin
University Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Martian Landslide and Fluvial Activity, and Problems of Cratering Rates on Mars and Earth
April 6 Alfred McEwen
UA Lunar and Planetary Lab
MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
April 20
4:00pm!
S. Alan Stern
Southwest Research Institute
(seminar in new location, see above note)
Searching for Ice at the Lunar Poles: The LAMP Investigation on NASA's 2008 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
April 27 Bruce Bohor
USGS, Denver &
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Anatomy of a giant impact: Characterization of the K/T boundary event from distal ejecta
May 4 Andy Rivkin
MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Rotationally-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Vesta: It's More Interesting Than You'd Think from the Title
May 11 Tim Slater
UA Steward Observatory
The Dawning of a New Era in Education and Public Outreach: New Roles and New Responsibilities for Scientists
May 18 Dante Lauretta
UA Lunar and Planetary Lab
(seminar in new location, see above note)
Iron Meteorites and the Origin of Life: Phosphide Minerals on Early Earth and the RNA World.
May 19
Thursday!
12:00
Amy Lovell
Agnes Scott College Physics & Astronomy
(seminar in new location, see above note)
New Long-wavelength Observations of Comets & Asteroids

Fall 2004

Spring 2004

Fall 2003

For more information contact Steve Kortenkamp

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